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Cratemakers' workshops, Greenfields Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1960. A row of outbuildings with piles of wood leaning up against the walls ready to be made into crates. Cratemakers produced packing crates for the safe transport of bulk pottery items, and were just one of the ancilliary trades which supported the pottery industry. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)